The Call

It’s 5:48 am. I have to be at work this evening at 11. I have appointments throughout the day. I hear a shrill noise that I am sure must be in my head. It’s enough to wake me from a good slumber. I look over at the phone. It was not a dream. It was work. They need someone to  help at work because someone called out. I had switched being on-call for 2 days with a co-worker and while I am not officially on-call, she can’t split herself in half and work the same shift as two different people. This sucks.

I am just grateful I got some sleep last night. Typically on my days off I keep my third shift schedule. I didn’t this time. Last night I went to bed around 11 pm . I’m glad I did because otherwise there is no way I could work this morning.

I will have to cancel my appointment and I don’t want to do that. But I suppose this is all part of the job. I hope I get enough rest during the day for the other shift I have to work tonight.

Three Simple Words

Three simple words warmed my heart last night. Yes, they were “I love you” and they meant the world. My aunt and I must be telepathic or something. I had been on her mind and she had been on mind. Maybe I should say I had been on her heart and she had been on mine.

It’s hard for me to call people because my normal schedule is completely opposite for most of the people in the USA. Maybe if I lived in Europe and worked 3rd shift that would work, but it ain’t so easy in the US. I had thought about my aunt, though, the day before and made a mental note that I needed to call her on my days off. Lo and behold she called me last night at 10pm. (She always forgets that I am an hour ahead of her.)

I told her how weird it was that I had been thinking of her the day before and then she calls me. We laughed. I always tear up talking to her. She ends up making me smile, though. I told her I was scared when I saw her number pop on my phone, though. Usually when I get late night calls from Alabama it means someone is sick or dead. I know that sounds morbid, but it is true. So it was a little scary and I waited anxiously when I answered for the bad news. When I didn’t hear any, I had to ask. She said there was no bad news and that she was just calling to tell me that she loved me and missed me. (Dang! I’m tearing up typing this!) It just really meant the world to me.

I may not get to talk to my extended family often, but I love them.

Eye Innovation!

If you have read other stuff, you might know I work 3rd shift. I am quite sleep deprived. It’s really showing, too. I have always had some darkness under my eyes but now it is a lot worse. My eyes feel like there are mini-suitcases under them.

So I was looking through an Avon book the other day. There is a new eye innovation out there to fix my under eye circles! Did y’all know this? And it’s only $14.99! It is this vibrating wand looking thing that you’re supposed to put on those puffy areas and turn it on. Voila! The  bags are supposed to disappear which will then help eliminate the darkness. Hmmmm…does this sound a little too good to be true? Yeah, I thought so, too. Thankfully it’s only $14.99.

If you wanna check it out, here is what it looks like:

Surprises Aren’t Always Good

Yesterday I was exhausted! I was so tired and the leaf-blowing man blew leaves for HOURS. Finally it stopped so I thought I was going to get to go to bed. (Yes, I sleep during the day. I work 3rd shift!) So I am getting ready for bed. The cats are following me because they’re ready, too. They like for us to all go at the same time. (Yes, spoiled cats.)So I climb into my bed and am settling in and suddenly hear this loud noise. It sounds like someone is trying to break in or something. I’m upstairs so I figured I would look out the window down to see what was going on. I wasn’t ready for the surprise I got. As I pulled the shade back I suddenly see this man on a ladder working on my building. He is caulking the window. I screamed and yelled a couple of words that I probably shouldn’t and shut the blinds quickly! The cats were running in circles. The guy on the ladder yelled, “Sorry! I’ll be through soon.” I just ran and climbed back in bed. I was hoping he didn’t see me standing there with no pants on. Not the best surprise I ever got.

Where Do You Buy A Life?

I have been thinking (yes, insert snide laughter) and I have come to the conclusion that I need a life. There are many things preventing me from having one. I work 3rd shift. Most of the people who I would want to associate with (other than medical personnel) operate on a 1st shift schedule. Most of the world’s weekends begin on Friday. My weekend starts on Sunday morning at 7 am. By that time I am so dead tired that I just want to go home and sleep. Typically by the time I wake up the rest of the world is prepping for the coming week and getting ready for bed. There went the weekend!

I also take online classes, which sounds like a breeze but it is not. An online education requires that you basically teach yourself. My classes are 5 weeks long. I am studying information technology. In 5 weeks time I am expected to teach myself what it usually takes people to learn in the course of about 3-5 months. That’s a lot of information crammed in a short amount of time! So there goes spare time.

Friends? Most of mine are married, in relationships, or were friends with me and my ex. I would like some friends who are just mine. Not mine and his. I don’t want them to be a reminder of the past. I want to celebrate the future. Since I am locked away at night all the time and sleep during the day and my weekends are spent working and I work my butt off on school I don’t have much time left for anything else.

Even if I had spare time, where would I find friends for this life I want? I don’t know what to do anymore. Back in the day I worked in places where friendships were culled and formed and you spent time away from work with each other and then met friends of friends and such. I work with a handful of people and we are all on different shifts. We don’t have time for friendships with each other. We see each other at work more than we’d like sometimes!

So is there a store or something where you can just buy some sort of life? I don’t have much money so it would have to be a thrift store or something. And what would a thrift store life be like? Suggestions welcome!